SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Justice Department Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2024: A Joplin, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and for illegally possessing firearms. Dustin L. Holden, 34, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann A. Ketchmark on Friday, Aug. 23, to 22 years and nine months in federal prison without parole. On Feb. 13, 2024,  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on Aug. 27, 2024: * * * Investing in America Agenda Will Help Raise the Bar for Energy Efficiency in Buildings Across the Country that will Lower Energy Costs for Americans and Combat Climate Change * * * As part of the Biden-Harris Administration's Investing in America agenda (https://www.whitehouse.gov/invest/), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced nineteen State and local governments will receiv  more

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Nebraska, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Strategic Command issued the following news: By Staff Sgt. Whitney Erhart, 131st Bomb Wing Public Affairs DIEGO GARCIA, British Indian Ocean Territory - U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 110th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron completed a hot pit event with the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber during a Bomber Task Force mission, Aug. 21, 2024. Hot pitting is the act of having an aircraft land, refuel and take off without shutting its engines down.   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Transportation Command issued the following news release: SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- U.S. Transportation Command's (USTRANSCOM) Defense Personal Property Management Office (DPMO) coordinated with the military services and U.S. Coast Guard to select 16 domestic installations that will begin awarding shipments under the Global Household Goods Contract (GHC) in September. These installations are located across nine states - Arizona, Califo  more

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri, Aug. 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2024: U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. on Tuesday sentenced a Cape Girardeau man who sold pounds of methamphetamine to confidential informants to 12 years in prison. Dewayne K. Clark, 57, pleaded guilty in May to two counts of distribution of methamphetamine, one count of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and on  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Aug. 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2024: An Independence, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and illegally possessing firearms. Demarkus Q. Shelton, 44, was charged in a 16-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo. Today's indictment replaces a federal criminal complaint that was filed   more

OMAHA, Nebraska, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Omaha District issued the following news release: RIVERDALE, N.D. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct vegetation management activities during August and September on sandbars in the Missouri River between Garrison Dam and Huff, N.D. The Bismarck-Mandan river reach (river miles 1325 to 1310) will not be sprayed. This work is being done to keep the sandbars free of vegetation and usable by the threatened piping plover for n  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Omaha District issued the following news release: YANKTON, S.D. -- During September, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct vegetation management activities on sandbars in the Missouri River between Yankton and Vermillion, S.D., the upper portion of Lewis and Clark Lake near Springfield S.D. and Niobrara, N.E., and as far upstream as Pickstown, S.D. This work is being done to keep the sandbars free of vegetation and usable by t  more